The loyalty of a dog is bound only by its short life and communications barrier, a dog would literally go to the ends of the earth to seek out its owner, it would spend every breath it had, hoping to see its owner one last time. Dogs are a unique creature, they choose a person, that person becomes their person...and they wish only to please their person every waking moment of their lives. They only ask in return a few kind soft words, a scratch behind the ears, and enough food and water to get them by. You can scream at a dog, kick at it, hit it, hurt it, and while it may become skittish and distrustful...it doesnt lose faith in all humanity.
We should all be so lucky to have a good dog consider us, to be their person. Because you can have a dog, you can have 10 dogs...but that doesnt mean you are their person.
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